How waste recycling helps our planet - Zero to Landfill

TRANSCRIPT Up until now businesses have had to sort all their rubbish for recycling but many didn&have the time, which is why much of it ended up in landfill. However, help is now at hand! In Exeter, there is a place called Envirohub, which is the base for Devon Contract Waste. This company has started a &to Landfill&campaign because they would like to see everything recycled so landfill wouldn&be needed anymore. To help with this, they have spent over four million pounds on a fantastic new waste sorting machine which means businesses won&have to sort their rubbish anymore. This machine is huge: it&over ten metres high, covers the same area as one football pitches and it can sort up to 300 tonnes of rubbish per day -- that&the same weight as thirty seven and a half full size elephants. So how does it work? Let&go and see it in action! Rubbish arrives at Envirohub from all around the county in dustcarts, front-loaders and wheelie bins, where it is all emptied out on the floor. Then it is lifted by this mechanical grabber and dumped into the hopper where it is shredded down into smaller pieces. From the shredder, the rubbish goes up this belt to a big drum called a trommel screen. This tumbles the rubbish to remove all the soil and dust which gets turned into a fuel called Refuse-Derived Fuel product -- or RDF for short. Nothing gets wasted here!Everything else continues on to here. This is called a ballistic separator and it walks everything upwards, but only the flat...